Tiger Resort Leisure and Entertainment Inc. (TRLEI), the operator of Okada Manila, has asked the Department of Justice (DoJ) to conduct another preliminary investigation or reverse the resolutions issued by the Parañaque City Prosecutor’s Office which dismissed the $10-million estafa cases against gaming tycoon Kazuo Okada and his co-respondents.

In two separate motions, TRLEI asked the DoJ to instead indict Okada on the charges, saying the dismissal of the complaints and the premature release or leakage to his camp of the resolutions that junked the charges violated its constitutional right to due process.

TRLEI complained the pertinent portions of the resolutions issued by Parañaque City Prosecutor Amerhassan C. Paudac had been leaked and found their way to the social media accounts of Okada’s Korean girlfriend, Chloe Kim, on May 18.

TRLEI said it was only on May 30 or almost two weeks after Kim had posted the dispositive portions of the resolutions on social media that it received copies of resolutions signed by Paudac.

“The premature leakage, followed by the apparent ‘rush to release’ the assailed resolutions, coupled with the wrongful dispositions and resolution of these cases, are indicative of Paudac’s feared undue interest in the instant cases and which not only violate due process… but are grave administrative offenses,” TRLEI said in its motions.

It stressed the leakage “not only violated pertinent laws on public officers but also seriously damaged the credibility, independence and integrity of the assailed resolutions as well as of the OCP (Office of the City Prosecutor)-Parañaque and, ultimately, City Prosecutor Paudac.”

“With due respect, the leaked assailed resolution(s) itself is the smoking gun that something irregular happened in the Office of the City Prosecutor of Parañaque City, headed by Paudac,” it lamented.

The controversy prompted Justice Secretary Menardo I. Guevarra to order the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to probe into the circumstances surrounding the premature release or leakage of Paudac’s two resolutions.

Guevarra had said “premature disclosure of orders and resolutions prior to official release is not allowed unless there are compelling reasons that would sufficiently justify the same.”